Justin Willard

Hitters are really good.

Like again, they're just solving problems at a higher and quicker rate than we've ever experienced.

So presenting them little wrinkles in our problems is, is really, really helpful as we move forward.

And especially now with going to the ABS, like it's going to be ever more present.

I just don't like, I've, I've seen too many pitchers be wrong.

I think catchers are the best ones.

Yeah, I think ultimately, like, you would have a set amount of pitchers on your roster, and you want to set it up to where, again, you're playing basically every day to maximize as much winning potential as possible, right?

Like, I think we saw last year was May, June-ish, where starters for the Red Sox weren't going past, like, the fifth inning.

They were kind of getting cut off third time through the order.

And I think there were some advantages there.

Okay, cool, like...

We can use our bullpen, but are we using our bullpen now too much that it's actually taking away from the effectiveness of our ability to actually win baseball games because we're using these guys over and over and they're getting fatigued and tired.

So it's like, it's all very much a juggling act of, we always want to maximize for winning and understanding kind of who we have currently available and who's starting this game and how do we maximize our ability to win this game?

And whether to push that guy out there for another time through the order or take him out is just understanding how do we win each baseball game.

For sure.

That's, yeah.

Again, it goes back to like maximizing wins, right?

Like I think you saw from Chapman last year of this guy's coming in and the highest leverage situation in the game, no matter whether it's the eighth inning or the ninth inning, or like you have to give yourself the best chance to win with that kind of best weapon that you have.

So yeah, for me, again, I don't think there's like set traditional rules, but it's understanding what part of the game we're at and who's the best available option for that time to make sure we have the best chance of winning this baseball game.

Yeah.